LeBron James to Miss Opening of National Basketball Association Campaign with Sciatica.
James started his professional journey with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003.
The Lakers superstar is sidelined for around four weeks and will miss the start of the NBA season because of sciatica, Lakers stated.
The player, aged 40, agreed to a new agreement with the Lakers in June of this year and is poised to be the first player to compete across 23 individual campaigns.
Sciatic pain is a pain in the sciatic nerve that travels down the back and down the leg.
The athlete has not taken part in exhibition games and missed the games against the Warriors and the Suns recently as a result of the sciatic problem.
The American will likely miss for each of the five of the Lakers' games in the month of October, including the first game against Golden State.
LeBron James, the highest points scorer in history, has not missed before the opening of the season in his 22-year career.
His tally of over 1,500 regular-season appearances is merely 50 less than surpassing former Boston Celtics star the legend's NBA record.
The four-time NBA champion played in seventy of the Lakers' 82 games the previous campaign and was active for 71 games in the year before.
The previous season, the player averaged over 24 points, more than 8 assists and 7.8 rebounds per game and placed sixth in the Most Valuable Player vote.
The Lakers qualified for the play-offs in last season but were defeated four games to one against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the initial stage.
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